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Ukrainian defenders in Mariupol defy surrender-or-die demand
AP ^ | April 18, 2022 | ADAM SCHRECK and MSTYSLAV CHERNOV

Posted on 04/18/2022 3:51:55 AM PDT by GonzoII

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian fighters who were holed up in a massive steel plant in the last known pocket of resistance inside the shattered city of Mariupol ignored a surrender-or-die ultimatum from Russia on Sunday and held out against the capture of the strategically vital port.

The fall of Mariupol, the site of a merciless 7-week-old siege that has reduced much of the city to a smoking ruin, would be Moscow’s biggest victory of the war and free up troops to take part in a potentially climactic battle for control of Ukraine’s industrial east.....


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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: clownworld; keinerdgasfursie; mariupol; remembermariupol; russia; ukraine; zottherussiantrolls
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" Ukrainian fighters who were holed up in a massive steel plant"

One day it will be a museum… Remember Mariupol!!

1 posted on 04/18/2022 3:51:55 AM PDT by GonzoII
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To: GonzoII
The last thousand UAF Marines at the Ilyich steel plant surrendered 3 days ago.

The Azov Nazis, both Ukrainian and foreign Nazi volunteers, are still bunkered down under the Azovtal steel plant and as of now they won't surrender, for obvious reasons.


2 posted on 04/18/2022 3:56:01 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeeAD4Vewcs


3 posted on 04/18/2022 3:56:44 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19 (Res ad Triarios venit; )
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To: Travis McGee
" The last thousand UAF Marines at the Ilyich steel plant surrendered 3 days ago. The Azov Nazis, both Ukrainian and foreign Nazi volunteers, are still bunkered down under the Azovtal steel plant"

"As its missiles and rockets slammed into other parts of the country, Russia estimated that 2,500 Ukrainian troops and about 400 foreign mercenaries were dug in at the sprawling Azovstal steel mill…"

4 posted on 04/18/2022 4:04:52 AM PDT by GonzoII ("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen )
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To: GonzoII

Say goodby or surrender. It’s not a game.


5 posted on 04/18/2022 4:15:19 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: GonzoII

Amazing that the Russians haven’t been able to close the deal on Mariupol. They’ve been claiming it’s completely captured for weeks.

Don’t know how the holdouts are able to get food, though.


6 posted on 04/18/2022 4:20:37 AM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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" Don't know how the holdouts are able to get food, though."

Yeah. I hope there's a lot more we don't know about………..yet

;0)

7 posted on 04/18/2022 4:24:37 AM PDT by GonzoII ("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen )
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To: Travis McGee

Source of the article is the AP (Always Propaganda)

Nazi’s?

Associated Press
What the AP’s Collaboration With the Nazis Should Teach Us About Reporting the News
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/ap-collaboration-nazis-reporting-news
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I believe the photo you posted is total PhotoShopped.

We are not being told the truth about either side in this.

There is no way that the bulk of the Ukrainians are Nazi’s. It does not fit the pattern of their history.

On the other hand, Putin knows he will never get another chance to recover what he considers Russian assets. He knows that Xi-O’Biden is worse than weak and that the ComDems are ball less and run by total idiots.

The Ukranian leadership is backed by the Globalist Pukes. Soros money too.

This one has our deep state stamped all over it. Propaganda and Lies. And total hiding the reality.


8 posted on 04/18/2022 4:43:39 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

The bulk of the Ukrainian Army are not Nazis. However, they support them by association when they allow the white nationalists to stay in their military. Most of the neo-Nazi fighters were sent to Mariupol (their headquarters in a sense) and to the area separating the Donbass and Ukraine where they were given permission by Kiev to terrorize, shell, and bomb the citizens living in the area 24/7 for 8 years.


9 posted on 04/18/2022 4:57:29 AM PDT by Prince of Space ( Let’s go, Brandon!)
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To: GonzoII

“a smoking ruin, would be Moscow’s biggest victory”


10 posted on 04/18/2022 5:01:14 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("Trannies be wack." - Gays)
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To: Prince of Space

Precisely. The terrorizing by the Azov bunch is the main reason Russia finally decided to rid eastern Ukraine of the scum.

Western media cannot let their captive public know and understand this. Ukrainians know very well Zelensky has used this renegade bunch to dominate the Donbas region. The chickens have come home to roast.

Russia will starve the Azov out if they won’t surrender.


11 posted on 04/18/2022 5:09:09 AM PDT by blackberry1
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To: Prince of Space
The bulk of the Ukrainian army are not nazis

Russia has more Nazis in their army including the detestable Sparta battalion. Russian accusations of Ukraine Nazis are over the top ridiculous, since Putin called Zelensky and the Ukrainian government Nazis and Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov called Zelensky "a Nazi and a neo Nazi".

12 posted on 04/18/2022 5:32:45 AM PDT by tlozo (Trump-the Russian invasion of Ukraine is " truly a crime against humanity")
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To: tlozo

It’s a lot like the dems calling everyone right of lenin a ‘nazi’. Same ol’ crap.


13 posted on 04/18/2022 5:34:13 AM PDT by Houserino
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To: GonzoII

It is shaping up to be the Ukrainian Alamo. Its a remarkable performance really. The garrison has crippled a first line Russian Division (150th Motor Rifle), and at least one Naval Brigade, and held out for a month and a half while tying down large numbers of besiegers. And that is after being surprised and surrounded by the attack up from Crimea.


14 posted on 04/18/2022 5:42:44 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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" Its a remarkable performance really."

No doubt about it. Can't help but admire it.

;0)

15 posted on 04/18/2022 5:46:31 AM PDT by GonzoII ("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen )
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To: Travis McGee

The Ukrainian Naval Brigade performed with honor. They apparently resisted to the limit of their ability, in terms of material means, and held out far longer than anyone had a right to expect.

They reflect great credit on the Ukrainian armed forces.


16 posted on 04/18/2022 5:47:12 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: Prince of Space

Your source of info?

Foreign or Domestic?

It does not matter now. Our media is total lies 24/7 with few pockets who would like to tell the truth.

We are worse than Pravda at it’s peak, because of the coms technology.

Virtual Reality? Artificial Intelligence? Both are BS and illusions.

Nobody that I know who writes about the Ukraine is even close to telling the Truth. The Truth is dead to the media.


17 posted on 04/18/2022 6:03:41 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Sacajaweau

Thousands of Ukrops in Mariupol have already surrendered, including the remains of the 36th and 501st Brigades.

The remaining fighters are going to die, plain and simple.


18 posted on 04/18/2022 6:09:22 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
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To: GonzoII

good riddance to the azov brigade’s neo-nazi terrorists.


19 posted on 04/18/2022 6:09:40 AM PDT by CarolinaReaganFan
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To: GonzoII
Good, call in the exterminators.


20 posted on 04/18/2022 6:22:05 AM PDT by McGruff (Not our circus, not our monkeys.)
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